The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-30


of gaDgfor the best Office they could gave
me in the State of Indiana. You Will pardon
me, gentlemen Of the jury. but feel IN earnest
| about this matter You will find when you
have returned your verdict of guilty against Sim
| Coy that you have done wrong You will
| find who the scaawags are aud who are not
.'Now, would say this thing further 10 re-
gard to Mr. Perkins. Some complaint has been
made that in this agreement he testified. OF
agreed TO testify only as to Coy. do not know
whether the vile and vicious Jim Mitchell and
the vile and vicious Mr.. Ritter were able to &c.
better terms out of Perkins not / have
right to presume, however. that they could not.
/ do not believe that Jim Mitchell would under
take to screen Sim Coy or anybody elss- I'M
dertake to say that Perkins not willing tg
testify against Sullivan; no not willing to
testify against Budd; ha was not willing to tes-
tify against Beck and Spaan; he was willing &C.
do just little as he coud do in order to escape
punishment himself, if you want it in that way.
And right here in this connection ] win cay that
/ do not know whether the Court will instruct
you that subject or not, bnt If the Court does
tell you so far as i.s being a crime TO make the
agreemsnt it the right of the prosecuting at
torney to make 1t when ne made it, Gentlemen OF
the jury. he made IT. and We have It's fruits, and
that is what hurts
No rogue e'er felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law.
"'Wheu rogues fall out honest men get their
dues When criminals fall out the Jails aud
peniten tiaries begin to open. and that is the
reason that Coy and his counsel do not like men
that turn States evidences, that is the reason
why my friend Jason Brown licked half dozen
biadders before be came in here to denounce Mr..
Perkins and fill his mind with ali the bitterness
possible
''Sim Coy testified before you that he never
owned bnt knife, and that given him
lately. Do you believe that Sim Coy never
owned but ore knife in all his life and that
given him recently2 What nexs2 Perkins said
after scratching the Hisey papers he gave them
to Mattler and asked Mattier tc hand them to
Hsey Now. Hisey testified that he got these
papers from Mattler and that hs got them back
from Matter. You will see, therefore, notwith-
standing Matters contradiction Notwithstanding
Mattler's denial, Notwithstanding Coys denial,
there is the fact that Matter handed Hisey his
papers after they bad been scratched, to corrob
orate Mr.. Perkins's state mont and the
if you would not believe Perkins.
unless he is corroborated, there is eofne cor
corroboration of Mr. Perkins this subject.
Perkins said that while he was 10 that room,
Mr.. Flynn came in. They say Mr.. Perkins is
impeached upon this subject, because MIR. Flynn
testified he not there. Mr.. Flynn. long
months after the occurrence, may think that
he was not there. He may have gone
in and was observed by Mr.. Perkins, and went
out, and without anything TO fix it ON his mind
may have forgotten about It, Mr. Flynn saying
he was not there. not recollectng of being there,
is contradiction that he was not there.
submit to you right here, if Perkins agree
ing upon that tale for the purpose of convicting
these parties and il he had such an assistant AS
Captain Ritter, and the assistance of Mr. Mitch
ell in getting up the tale, why would Perkins
mention the fact that Flynn was in that room
when Flynn was not therea vYhy would
Perkins say that you were there il you were
not there, when he would know that ne would
be contradicted2. Ir is no contradiction of Per
kins whatever.
again, Perkins stated that Smith Myevs was
in there. / believe Smith Myers stated he was
not in there. If Myers says he was not in there
/ will account for his statement just as account
for the statement of Dir. Flynn. We are not
charging anything crooked against Flynn or
Myers, but Smith Myers was in that ROOM go
to the incidental testimony Dir. Burton. who
fS llad M a n
in that room. He said he went in there,
and what did be go in there for9 He went in
there Smith My ers, and Smith Myers was
not in there. and he went out Smith Myers was
Dot in there a. tho moment Burton stepped in to
look fer him. l have doubt the pur-
pose Of Burton in going in there was
to look for him, and he didn't
find him. How came Burton go there9 That
is question | want you to answer In your mind.
He tells US that somebody told him that Smith
Myers wanted TO see him and to go into Room
SO Somebody who had received message from
Smith Myers to give to Burton received thar
message at q time when Smith Myers was in tho
room. and havine seen Smith Myers in the room,
when he found Burton, which may have been
many minutes afterwards. he said to Burton
that Smith Myers wanted TO see him, and to 60
to Room SO and he would find him. say, there
fore, Perkins is corroborated by Burton.
II forgot to mention the statement of Per-
kins in regard to what occurred between him and
Coy in Room SO, at the time the Hisey papers
were scratched. or at q later period. Perkins
SAID that Coy told him that Matters papers had
been changed baek-that originally there was a
change from Irwin to Ayres and you recollect OF
seeing it where there were five tallies-thirty
votes-scratched out from Irwin and then
many put upon Ayres, and then it appears those
upon Ayres had been scratched out and rein
serted where they had originally been scratched
from Irwin. So. while the memory OF men
might be mistaken, there Is another silent wit
ness that testifes TO the truth, about which
there can be no mistake. Perkins says that
Coy told him that Mattler had changed his pa
pers back. Those papers come before you and
testify that Matter has changed them back to
their original condition. Perkins and that pa
per stand together upon that subject. There IS
another corroboration of Perkins. Understand
that am not going to claim that Perkins ID
corroborated 10 all things. 1t is not necessary
that he be corroborated in all things. 1t is only
necessary there should be such corro oboration OF
such points in his testimony as that you. as hon
est Jurors, say that ne told the truth.
II give you now some of the corrobora-
tions. ] take the paper Of Schmidt. Per
kips said that Coy said that Mattler had
gone and changed back. Perkins said
Coy said because of that they had to
do something more There was an emer
gency for something else TO be DONE They had
1t fixed mp and all would have been well without
Innch more scratching. if it had not been for
the fact that Mattler became alarmed
And mark right here. it was eigaty,sis
CURED to elect Ayres That fact stands ad-
rnitted. By the scratching of Hisey's papers.
taking sixteen off from Irwin and putting sixteen
on Ayres making difference of thirty-two; by
the scratching of Matters papers taking thirty
off Irwin and putting thirty on Ayres, made
d1HeTtnce OF 6lAty, making uiHely-iHD VOi6S-A
little margin TO go They had the thing all
fixed up the very first effort. aud all would
have gone on easy and Well IL 1t had
not been that this man of good moral
character yonder proven by who
have testified to it. say in the face of this
community they have almost disgraced them
selves Yes, and do not who they are. I
do not say this because he is a liquor seller.
have my convictions upon that subject you
have yours have seen good honest mon who
sold liquor, and can only say that sorry
that good, honest will do that sort OF
thing"
Mr.. Claypool said that the people wanted the
city out of tho control OF the Liquor League,
and Sim Coy. He then showed Becks connec-
tion with the conspiracy and spoke of the prop
erty transaction in which Beck told some gentle
men who y=snt into q real estate deal with him
that he woald let them in the same basis. as
he hirnse he'd tie land. He had contracted the